Philosophy of personal identity and multiple personality
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Philosophy of personal identity and multiple personality
（Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy, 17）
Routledge, 2013, c2010
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-223) and index
"First published 2010"--T.p. verso
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Description
As witnessed by recent films such as Fight Club and Identity, our culture is obsessed with multiple personality-a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple personality. Gunnarsson combines the methods of analytic philosophy with close hermeneutic and phenomenological readings of cases from different fields, focusing on psychiatric and psychological treatises, self-help books, biographies, and fiction. He develops an original account of personal identity (the authorial correlate theory) and offers a provocative interpretation of multiple personality: in brief, "multiples" are right about the metaphysics but wrong about the facts.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction
Am I Alone in My Body?
Multiple Personality
Personal Identity
Part II: Diachronic Identity
What Am I Fundamentally?
Empirical Discernability and Fission
My Body
The Various Senses of "Personal Identity"
Part III: Multiple Personality and Individuation
Morton Prince's Seminal Case Study The Dissociation of a Personality
Philosophical Theories of Multiple Personality
The Coexistence Thesis
Sharing My Body
A Criterion of Individuation
Multiple Personality in Therapeutic and Biographic Discourses
Multiple Personality in Literary Discourses
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